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Howard Gardner is a renowned psychologist known for his theory of multiple intelligences. Born on July 11, 1943, his theory challenges the traditional view of intelligence as a single entity, proposing eight distinct domains of human intelligence.

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“Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.”

Ifs School Students Materials Strikes Aliens Pointless

Book:The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach

Source: The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach

“Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.”

Important Matter Kids School Life Is Can Do Skills Mark No Matter What

Author:Howard Gardner

“Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Different Problem School Faces Chance Poor Students Combination Zola

Author:Howard Gardner

“What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.”

Ifs Kind Littles School Certain Rooms Capacity Tasks Musical Etc Logical Spatial

Author:Howard Gardner

“When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.”

Way Children Different Reason Helping Home School Environment Thrive No Reason Multiple End Times Lenses Spend Time Assessing Different Environments Multiple Intelligences

Author:Howard Gardner

“Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.”

“We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.”

Should Mind Kind Long Seems Care Kids School Term College Impact Long Term Positive Impact

Author:Howard Gardner